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"Three thousand five hundred is all we need for our work." "Our wants are not for this one place only," Sandip replied. "We shall want all we can get." "That may be," said Amulya. "But in future I undertake to get you all you want. Out of this, Sandip Babu, please return the extra two thousand five hundred to the Maharani." Sandip glanced enquiringly at me. "No, no," I exclaimed.
He stood straight up as he replied: "I had set my heart, Sister Rani, on returning your jewels to you with my own hand. Sandip Babu knew this, but he forestalled me." "What do I care for my jewels?" I said. "Let them go. No harm is done. "Go? Where?" asked the mystified boy. "The jewels are mine," said Sandip. "Insignia bestowed on me by my Queen!" "No, no, no," broke out Amulya wildly.
Had not so tremendous a man as Sandip fallen helplessly at my feet, like a wave of the mighty sea breaking on the shore? Had I called him? No, it was the summons of that magic spell of mine. And Amulya, poor dear boy, when he first came to me how the current of his life flushed with colour, like the river at dawn!
You must now do another thing for me go home at once, home to your mother." Amulya produced a small bundle and said: "But, sister, I have got the six thousand." "Where from?" "I tried hard to get gold," he went on, without replying to my question, "but could not. So I had to bring it in notes." "Tell me truly, Amulya, swear by me, where did you get this money?" "That I will not tell you."
Yet, surely, even Amulya had seen the passion that flamed out of his eyes, his face. But Sandip is such an adept in setting music to his chant of praise that I cannot argue; I lose my power of seeing truth; my sight is clouded over like an opium-eater's eyes.
That is just the sort of bravado he loves to indulge in." The Inspector turned to Amulya. "Look here, young man," he continued, "I also was eighteen once upon a time, and a student in the Ripon College. I nearly got into gaol trying to rescue a hack driver from a police constable. It was a near shave."
How can I tell how much he has deprived me of? I shall never forgive him. "But, oh sister, his power over me has been utterly broken. And it is you who have broken it!" "Brother dear," said I, "if that is so, then my life is justified. But more remains to be done, Amulya. It is not enough that the spell has been destroyed. Its stains must be washed away.
I went straight from my sister-in-law's room to the sitting-room outside, and sent for Amulya. With him Sandip came along too. I was in a great hurry, and said to Sandip: "If you don't mind, I want to have a word or two with Amulya. Would you..." Sandip smiled a wry smile. "So Amulya and I are separate in your eyes?
"Where is the money to come from?" "I can loot the bazar," he burst out, without blenching. "Leave all that alone. I have my ornaments, they will serve. "But," said Amulya, "it strikes me that the cashier cannot be bribed. Never mind, there is another and simpler way." "What is that?" "Why need you hear it? It is quite simple." "Still, I should like to know."
The man came back after a while to say that Amulya was not in he had not come back since he had gone. "Gone!" The last word struck my ears like a wail in the gathering darkness. Amulya gone! Had he then come like a streak of light from the setting sun, only to be gone for ever? All kinds of possible and impossible dangers flitted through my mind. It was I who had sent him to his death.
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